The Whole World Thinks I Still Love Him [Reborn]

Weibo: @SteamPeach In the last few minutes of his life, Yun Ji thought back over his brief existence. Perhaps his greatest regret was meeting Cong Lie. They had been a bad match from the very first encounter, yet he twisted his dislike into bashfulness. He knew Cong Lie had never truly loved him, yet he clung to him without a shred of self-respect. They were from completely different worlds, but he would rather fall out with his family than try to win over the hot-tempered prodigy who rose to fame at a young age. Yun Ji seemed to have gotten everything he wanted. Cong Lie became a celebrated, top-tier star and singer in the entertainment industry. Cong Lie married him. Everyone called their marriage the perfect union of capital and trends. But Cong Lie didn’t love him. Cong Lie could spend three months recording an album without coming home. When Cong Lie looked at him, he was less affectionate than when looking at a microphone. Behind the praise people heaped on them, they always exchanged knowing, lingering glances. When the spring breeze brushed his eyes open again, Yun Ji no longer lost himself in anyone. == When news of the car accident arrived, Cong Lie grew calm. He calmly finished that day’s studio recording. Then he calmly went home. The lights were off. There would never be anyone else coming to open the door for him. Cong Lie had never imagined life could be so quiet, until one day he found himself in the emergency room. He closed his eyes, as if waiting for a long-lost kiss. == Reborn before his marriage, Yun Ji is a rich heir in everyone’s eyes, disowned by his family for shamelessly pursuing Cong Lie. Now he’s even going on a variety show with Cong Lie to embarrass himself and piggyback on his fame. When the show premieres, everyone is waiting to laugh at Yun Ji’s pathetic attempts to cling to Cong Lie. But the haughty superstar Cong Lie insists on sitting beside Yun Ji at meals and in the car, and when he can’t see Yun Ji, he threatens to fight the production crew. Comments: The show’s doing a great job. It’s obviously fake, but still so fun to ship them. Yun Ji: True. He’s acting well. He could make a career change. At last, Yun Ji’s career gets on track. He issues a statement on his own, saying that he and Cong Lie are merely business partners and that all their interactions are work-related. “Rising King of Songs Cong Lie focuses on his career and rejects publicity stunts linking him to others” instantly takes over every entertainment headline. Cong Lie’s fans are happy for him: Brother Lie doesn’t have to worry about a clingy fan anymore! Now he can focus on his new album! Not long after, Cong Lie’s new album, Inspiration, arrives, its sales shooting to the top of every music chart. He’s supposedly “free of his clingy fan and focused on his career.” The first song, “Missing You,” prompts someone to tag Yun Ji under Cong Lie’s Weibo post right away. Yun Ji reposts it graciously: “Best wishes, ‘Bouquet.’” The second song, “Can I Be Your Satellite?” gets Yun Ji tagged by plenty of people again. Yun Ji ignores them. The third song, “God Is Listening,” is a heartfelt confession. Cong Lie tags Yun Ji from his main account. Fans: Baby! You’re on the wrong account, baby! “Who can make Fuji theirs with love alone?” “Under Mount Fuji” Slow-to-recover rich heir, reborn beauty shou + X + younger, arrogant, wildly talented and dazzlingly confident gong Sickly shou X 10086 (meaning there will be lots of descriptions of illness, with frequent hospital visits. If this is a sore spot for you, definitely stay away. Emphasis added.) Both are reborn at the beginning of the story (the gong gradually recovers memories of his previous life). The focus is on the gong’s long, difficult pursuit of his wife. Neither of them has ever loved anyone but each other. [Optional bathroom reading guide] One-on-one romance, happy ending. Happy ending. Happy ending. Everything mentioned in the blurb will be in the story. Yun Ji will get back all the pain he suffered from Cong Lie, but this isn’t for extreme readers who insist Cong Lie must lose his head, because urban danmei only allows one rebirth, and this story has a happy ending. Very cheesy, with no regard for logic. An angsty, old-school romance, full of melodrama. Most of the story focuses on the two leads. A ridiculous, highly personal take on the entertainment industry. Entirely fictional, with no real-life inspiration. I write for myself and have a stockpile of chapters. I don’t take writing advice. Please add my melodramatic, second-chance romance novel, Classical Conditioning, to your reading list~ Yan Zhi is a therapist. No one knows he has post-traumatic stress disorder and mild visual hallucinations. He takes his medication on schedule and avoids going out on rainy nights. Despite being saddled with debt and gossip, Yan Zhi manages to live a more or less normal life. On a drunken night, Yan Zhi sees Mu Changjue and feels perfectly calm. Even though Mu Changjue should be 11,000 kilometers away, giving a speech after winning yet another Best Actor award. Yan Zhi can always see Mu Changjue: the senior who was part of his entire school life; the Best Actor who always shines like gold on camera; the ex-boyfriend who disappeared without a trace on a rainy night. He tries every kind of aversion therapy, but in the end he still loses to his original conditioned response. No matter how much it hurts when the rubber band snaps against his wrist, it can’t compete with the impulse brought on by that phantom embrace. But it’s fine. He spends the night without a care, assuming that Mu Changjue will disappear along with his aching body the next morning. Just like always. When Yan Zhi wakes, he thinks he’ll need to change his medication or increase the dose. He tries to ignore the fuzzy head on the bed and the broad back covered in crisscrossing scratch marks, wanting nothing more than to check out as if everything were normal. Sure enough, the front desk clerk politely asks, “Sir, did you leave anything behind?” Yan Zhi breathes a sigh of relief. “No.” “Is that so?” The man speaks calmly beside him, unhurriedly fastening his cufflinks. “Dr. Yan, you spent all night treating me, and now that you’ve woken up, you’ve forgotten your patient?” Mentally ill beauty shou X overprotective, powerful Best Actor gong * Classical conditioning: A psychological term for associative learning, also known as the conditioned response. When two things often appear together, the memory of one becomes associated with the other. * Rubber band therapy: A type of aversion therapy in which patients snap a rubber band against their wrist to form an aversive conditioned response. * There’s a completed novel with the same kinks, featuring a mentally ill character and a second-chance romance, titled Raising Kids Is Impossible, But I Guess I’ll Try. Give it a read~ Theme: Only sincerity can be met with sincerity.